(#6117) Only broken people are in the republican party

      The idea that the republican party is the same as the democratic party is absurd. The republicans only attract those who are broken and unaware. We democrats have our principles of honor and respect intact whereas republicans cannot fathom the idea of either. They do have allegiance but allegiance is only loyalty to themselves and their fears. What happened to these people who can only find a safe harbor in the republican party has many baffled. Mainly because republicans only care for the wealthy and that is not their majority base. So what did go wrong for these republican loyalists to latch onto republicanism instead of democracy?
     What I have discerned is that they do not like themselves. They hate what they have become and now want others at that level with them. They don't see the world through the eyes of possibility. They see it through the lens of constriction and diminished hope. Their egos are such that if anyone has success it harms their own sense of worth. They have allowed themselves to be cruel and brutish in ways they would never have thought of themselves. When those moments do occur and they can actually see who they have become they dismiss the logic with some alternative concept to keep themselves from having to embarrassingly admit they were wrong and need to change back into a semblance of who they originally were.
     The republicans know they are wrong but won't let themselves admit it. In their hearts they know that being the hero in all of life is far better than being the villain. They know that life is a gift we are all sharing and that no one is better than another. The republicans know this. But they won't admit it and will still vote to harm even themselves if it means harming others. I am no psychiatrist yet I do know that harming others is not normal and is a corruptible feature of a mind gone wrong. Broken people don't care about how you and I are doing they only want to soothe their own discomfort that they continually bring upon themselves because their learning loop has been broken.